Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[Killhunter]

Finally I just wanted to ask 2 things:

First, is it possible to disallow user to post something in a review thread? I mean they should be able to review the product, but not to post something in this thread.

When do you release the next update and which features will it have?

Thank you so much

[Killhunter]

And another question: Is it possible to run the Product Advertising API from Amazon.de? So i select a category and the products would be there automatic

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by psychobike

So without going into a long story, I discover today that in order to access and/or use the settings part of this mod you basically have to have Super Admin permissions.

So my question of coarse would be, is there anyway around this? If I use this feature on my site it will be ran by moderators without super admin access to the admincp. There is noway I want to have to sit on top of a mod such this one that has all it's useability done through the admincp. I'm not sure why any mod that is not a high intake money type mod would need to have super admin access to it's controls. If I appear to be slamming this mod I do not mean for it to come off like that. I apologize to anyone that may take it negatively. So is there a possible solution to get around this?

You don't need to be a superadmin, you need to be an admin.

In development you make decisions, one of which is to build more features or build less for more user types. Most of boards prefer more functionality but it's never going to be all inclusive.

We chose not to redevelop every admin feature for the mod cp as in most forums content is also approved by the top of the team, not the middle. If you don't work that way you can port the features from the admin cp to the mod cp or give more mods limited admin access.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

First, is it possible to disallow user to post something in a review thread? I mean they should be able to review the product, but not to post something in this thread.

Turn off posting in the forum.

When do you release the next update and which features will it have?

See the first page of the mod.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

And another question: Is it possible to run the Product Advertising API from Amazon.de? So i select a category and the products would be there automatic

It depends on how you want to run it. You could in theory port the API to show ads or buying options on products you've defined or you could go even further and use it to let users search for products to review but you can't create listings with an API alone.

APIs require a query [i.e. looking for _something_]. If you want to get _everything_ in a set category you need a datafeed which, in the case of amazon, is quite a lot of data.

[1320Nation]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You don't need to be a superadmin, you need to be an admin.

In development you make decisions, one of which is to build more features or build less for more user types. Most of boards prefer more functionality but it's never going to be all inclusive.

We chose not to redevelop every admin feature for the mod cp as in most forums content is also approved by the top of the team, not the middle. If you don't work that way you can port the features from the admin cp to the mod cp or give more mods limited admin access.

Thanks for the info. However I had a admin account setup with everything except being a superadmin and each time of trying to enter the settings for this mod it gave a message box displaying that account does not have admin permissions.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by psychobike

Thanks for the info. However I had a admin account setup with everything except being a superadmin and each time of trying to enter the settings for this mod it gave a message box displaying that account does not have admin permissions.

Well that we can fix.

Since you made the remark, what admin group do you feel the mod should fit into the permissions for [i can make a new one but tend not too unless people really think they'd make admins for just this mod's data]..

forums? threads? users? blog?

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Turn off posting in the forum.

I have a gaming forum and i thought i make the thread for the game sticky in a forum for the game.


Games
--Game 1
----Sticky: Review Thread
----Other Threads
--Game 2
----Sticky: Review Thread
----Other Threads

....

If I close the thread, i have to activate the posts manually.

[Ted S]

How about closing the review thread to new posts instead?

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

How about closing the review thread to new posts instead?

Of course i tried this before, but if i do this like that, i have to aktivate each post...

Its really important for me...